We didn't find out with number 1 or this baby. Dh talked me into finding out with number 2 but I preferred a surprise at birth :) Eta: I preferred GN baby things. I'm not into super girly or boyish anything.

My 2 1/2 year old loves to color/scribble with crayons, pencils, pens, play dough, the larger pattern blocks, legos, stickers, blocks, threading big beads on a lace, watercolors...

To do: breakfast get turkey bones from garage freezer to make stock start stock towel laundry x2 sheet laundry freeze chicken email dh re dates msg someone on FB tie dye fabric for a baby wrap and blanket lunch defrost salmon for dinner pick green beans and radishes make dinner - roasted radishes and carrots, baked salmon, salad the rest is bumped to tomorrow

When dd1 was small, she would rarely go to bed before 10 so no issues staying out late with her. Now that she's 5 and dd2 is 2 1/2, bedtime is more regular and both girls go to bed at 8. During soccer season it gets pushed back to 8:30 or at the latest 9. We eat dinner at 6:30, so some nights, it's dinner, clean up, pjs, brush teeth and bed. I'm sure we'll all have a change in routine once the new baby is born though.... dh is oftentimes not home yet at bedtime, so things will change.

5 speed or stick shift

done: breakfast dishes prep dinner lunch kill squash bug eggs - YUCK pick green beans freeze chicken thighs start chicken stock in crockpot get brown rice from garage storage fold towels to do: finish making dinner veg with dd2 (older dd is on her first overnight trip out of town with Daddy!)

TBH, I'm kind of bothered that someone finds it necessary to cover pictures of naked baby bottoms with drawn on undies or stickers. That's just weird to me. If it offends you, why even keep the calendar at all?

No issues with naked baby pics here.

Ugh add break coffeepot and have a hormonal breakdown to my completed list. Thank goodness dh was home early to make dinner. I'm done with today.

done: dishes wash laundry wash diapers wash towels make yogurt make water kefir breakfast lunch transplant pumpkin plants to do: finish packing dd's stuff dinner find sewing ruler (think this is a lost cause :() wash fabric freeze leftover breakfast burrito filling

This is what we do, except I keep all the art paper in ours, so don't divide by color. I ordered my pocket chart from amazon. It's hanging on the wall next to our calendar, which is right by our dining room table (where the kids do their art projects).

I use the cheap spiral notebooks for my daily lists and the kids use them as "coloring books" especially for in the car and while traveling. I always have a stash.

There are always some dishes in my sink. I cook and bake a lot and my dishwasher can't keep up. If a friend judges me for that, I'm not sure I'd consider that person a friend for long...

I bought my small whiteboards at discountschoolsupply. Our small chalkboards came from there, too.

We have gone back and forth a couple of times but as of right now, my 5 year old gets none. We tried reading eggs and starfall and they weren't a good fit so Bob books and Dick and Jane are a much better fit for us. I was uncomfortable with the screen time anyway.

I use freezer bags and mason jars.

I generally keep it up to a year in the deep freezer.

I'm melting. It doesn't help that I'm 32 weeks pregnant with no car this week and the only thing we have in the house to eat for dinner is something that requires a 425* oven.

I don't reuse for food storage (I use pyrex glass for that), but we do save the rare microwave dinner plastic dishes/trays for crafting (especially paint and glue) and the clear pint and quart take-out containers with lids are perfect for storing homemade playdough.

We use a Sketchbook I bought at Joann fabrics :) I'm thinking of buying some MLB from paperscissorstome when we're finished with K, but for now the Sketchbook is working perfectly.

It is very important to me that my children see the normal biological purpose for breasts. I nurse my children everywhere without a cover and want them to feel comfortable with seeing others do it as well, and they do. Sure, it's nothing to stare down and make a spectacle of, but it should be a normal thing to see. When children's books are full of baby bottles (and toy babies come with bottles), it's even more important to do so, IMHO, to counterbalance a lot of that. I do agree that some of the posts in this thread are worded a little strangely, but I do agree quite a bit with the sentiment. I was not breastfed, and many in my generation were not, as it simply wasn't the "thing to do" back then, but I think it's an important thing that needs to be brought back into the open and allowed to become a normal thing to see in society.

I bought mine yesterday! So excited to get rid of my ink-sucking hp.

I'm still eating stuff from 2010 :)

Inserting plain, unsweetened yogurt before bedtime always cured mine.

Another vote for Mirado Black Warriors!